We had quite a scare last night

[Sirrahsim]

I'm sure that your instructor said that scoop what is in the MOUTH, versus throat. If s/he suggested you stick a finger past the mouth then that instructor needs to lose their license.

[buckner]

Well what I originally said and what I said again was what the instructor told us. Should I say it again? Would you suddenly believe that the instructor told us that, if I tell you again?

I remember choking on hamburger one night. My dad told me to spit it out. I kept choking, and coughing, and finally couldn't breathe. He reached in my mouth, into my throat, and dislodged it himself. He didn't know the heimlech, or the beating-on-the-back method.... he did what instinct told him to do, and that was to get the hamburger out of my throat.